Rescuers Struggle to Reach Victims

Quake in China Cuts Off Access to Some Communities, Leaving Survivors Without Basic Supplies

By

Dinny McMahon

Updated April 21, 2013 2:01 p.m. ET

LUSHAN, China—Thousands of terrified villagers were sheltering in tents in this mountainous corner of southwestern China on Sunday night as rescue workers struggled to distribute supplies to thousands more cut off by a powerful earthquake that Chinese authorities said killed 186 people and injured more than 11,000 others.

At least 21 more people were missing, the authorities said, following the temblor that struck Sichuan province on Saturday morning, not far from the epicenter of a 2008 quake that killed more than...